Life can be stressful. I've been practicing therapy for about 20 years helping children, families, and adults make sense of their stress while moving forward in life. I work with neurotypical and neurodiverse people providing select interventions towards improved personal understanding and improved ways of attaching to the world.
Before getting easier, things need to get better. Let's begin that process.
I believe understanding (or diagnosing) precedes treatment. In therapy that means carefully listening before prescribing or suggesting specific advice. My training, supervision, and practice in psychoanalysis facilitates this initial phase well. There are occasional silences, but that's OK. We can talk about why silences happen as feelings and thoughts are tricky things. In short, therapy is like fishing. If you make too much noise you won't catch anything. But as things proceed, each session will have a consistent cognitive and behavioral (CBT) component as well; an opportunity to check in on your behaviors (particularly your self care behaviors) and the thoughts that support or frustrate your better interests.
Entering any new space, even a therapeutic space, can be stressful. I create a warm and disarming approach to gathering the intake information required. I don't rush my clients. You control which questions you wish to answer and elaborate upon. Your first visit may last a full hour. Any information not gathering in the first session can be completed in the second visit. No worries.
